Ear Flux

Galera, um Vangelis Papathanassiou no principinho.. antes de sair a solo e depois juntar com o Jon Anderson, o camarada tinha essa bandinha sinistra com o primo dele, Demis Roussos. Taí, enrriquecendo um pouco mais o acervo de progressivo do blog aqui, um prog grego, greco. Dos mai fino.

1972, 666 - APHRODITE’S CHILD

By the time Vangelis starts working on the third Aphrodite’s Child album his friend Argyris Koulouris joins the band after fulfilling his army duty in Greece. At the end of 1970 a conceptual album, based on the a part of the New Testament, The Apocalypse of St. John is conceived by Vangelis and Costas Ferris. The entire album takes over a year to complete, and when it is finally ready for release, the band has already split up, with all members working on solo albums…

Production problems for the album are numerous, as the band members were not on very good terms during the recording sessions. Then Mercury, the band’s record label adds to the troubles by objecting to the specific content of the album, and although Vangelis refuses to remove offending tracks (such as ‘oo’ Infinity), the album is brought back to the released issue of 80 minutes.

One single makes it off the album, “Break/Babylon” is released in November 1972, but that can not turn the album into a commercial success at the time. Today however the experimental “666″ has received widespread acknowledgement and is regarded as a classic work and milestone in progressive rock! FOR MORE.. FOLLOW THE…

PS. essa contra capinha ai, eu já tive na minha mão o vinil.. numa dessas viagens à bienal de arte que rolava de ir só pra passar dois dias na galeria do rock.. o fdp me queria 170R$ no vinil!! isso era tipo 98. se fosse hj corria o risco de levar.. merda.